Patents by Inventor Young-su Moon

Young-su Moon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10621710
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display, and a processor configured to generate a second image and a third image where a dynamic range is expanded by respectively applying a first gain and a second gain to an input first image, generate a degraded image of the second image by applying a predetermined degradation model to the second image, based on a difference value between a pixel of the degraded second image and a pixel of the third image satisfying a predetermined condition, modify a pixel value of the second image based on the difference value, and output the second image where the pixel value is modified through the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gi-yeong Gim, Seung-hoon Han, Young-su Moon, Tae-gyoung Ahn, Woo-seok Kang
  • Publication number: 20200104982
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes an input interface, a first storage, a display, and a processor. Pixel values corresponding to a predetermined number of lines in an image input through the input interface are stored in the first storage,. The processor acquires a first patch of a predetermined size by sampling a number of pixel values located in an outer region of a matrix centering about a specific pixel value from among the pixel values stored in the first storage, acquires a high-frequency component for the specific pixel value based on the acquired first patch, and processes the input image based on the high-frequency component. The display displays the processed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-jun LIM, Seok-bong YOO, Tae-gyoung AHN, Young-su MOON, Seong-hoon CHOI
  • Patent number: 10574958
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a signal processor configured to process an image signal to display an image on the display, and a controller configured to determine at least one region of possible color distortion from an edge area in the image displayed on the display and to change a color of the determined at least one region, based on a probability that a color distortion occurs in the determined at least one region and a replacement color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-seung Lee, Sung-hun Choi, Young-su Moon, Young-hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 10554900
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of processing an image thereof are provided. The method includes identifying at least one area of an input image by analyzing a dynamic range of the input image, obtaining at least one mapping function based on dynamic range information and brightness information of the at least one area and dynamic range information of the display apparatus, obtaining at least one virtual image where the dynamic range of the input image is converted using the at least one mapping function, synthesizing the at least one virtual image and the input image, and outputting the synthesized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-yoon Kim, Seung-ho Park, Seong-hoon Choi, Ho-cheon Wey, Young-su Moon, Tae-gyoung Ahn
  • Patent number: 10554942
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus including: a display; a signal receiver configured to receive an image signal; a signal processor configured to process the image signal received in the signal receiver; a first sensor configured to sense ambient brightness; and a controller configured to control the signal processor to change grayscale of an output image to be displayed on the display based on characteristics of the image signal and characteristics of the display apparatus if a glare level corresponding to the ambient brightness sensed by the first sensor and brightness of the display is greater than a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-ho Park, Doo-seop Choi, Young-su Moon, Young-hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 10552004
    Abstract: Provided is an application providing method of an electronic device, the application providing method including: obtaining manipulation information of a user with respect to an application provided by the electronic device; obtaining feeling information of the user; modifying a user interface of the application based on the manipulation information and the feeling information of the user; and providing the application including the modified user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ping Hu, Gengyu Ma, Jae-hyun Kim, Young-su Moon
  • Patent number: 10540934
    Abstract: Disclosed is a local dimming liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doo-seop Choi, Gi-yeong Gim, Young-su Moon, Young-hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 10542242
    Abstract: A display apparatus which processes and displays an image signal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The method includes receiving an image data, dividing the received image data into an image signal into an image signal and a metadata, and acquiring information relating to an area of interest by using the metadata and performing a high dynamic range (HDR) processing with respect to the area of interest by using the acquired information relating to the area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-gyu Lim, Woo-seok Kang, Seung-hoon Han, Young-su Moon
  • Patent number: 10515440
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes an input interface, a first storage, a display, and a processor. Pixel values corresponding to a predetermined number of lines in an image input through the input interface are stored in the first storage. The processor acquires a first patch of a predetermined size by sampling a number of pixel values located in an outer region of a matrix centering about a specific pixel value from among the pixel values stored in the first storage, acquires a high-frequency component for the specific pixel value based on the acquired first patch, and processes the input image based on the high-frequency component. The display displays the processed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-jun Lim, Seok-bong Yoo, Tae-gyoung Ahn, Young-su Moon, Seong-hoon Choi
  • Publication number: 20190362467
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a storage configured to store a plurality of filters each corresponding to a plurality of image patterns; and a processor configured to classify an image block including a target pixel and a plurality of surrounding pixels into one of the plurality of image patterns based on a relationship between pixels within the image block and to obtain a final image block in which the target pixel is image-processed by applying at least one filter corresponding to the classified image pattern from among the plurality of filters to the image block, wherein the plurality of filters are obtained by learning, through an artificial intelligence algorithm, a relationship between a plurality of first sample image blocks and a plurality of second sample image blocks corresponding to the plurality of first sample image blocks based on each of the plurality of image patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hyun-seung LEE, Dong-hyun KIM, Young-su MOON, Tae-gyoung AHN
  • Publication number: 20190311672
    Abstract: A display apparatus and control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus including: a display configured to display an image; a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources configured to emit light to a screen of the display; an image processor configured to divide an input image into a plurality of blocks, identify target brightness for each block, and adjust a control value of each of the plurality of light sources based on priority of each of the plurality of light sources; and a driver configured to drive the plurality of light sources based on the control value. Thus, the duty for controlling the quality of light from the light source is identified considering the duty of the light source corresponding to an area of which previously identified priority is high, and thus dimming control is possible taking effects of light diffusion from adjacent neighboring light sources into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-hoon JEONG, Doo-seop CHOI, Young-su MOON
  • Publication number: 20190251673
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus according to an example embodiment includes an input unit comprising input circuitry, and a processor configured to: perform a noise reduction process on an image input through the input unit, identify a first pixel block based on an object pixel in the input image, identify a second pixel block based on the object pixel in a denoised image, obtain a gain value based on a pixel value included in the first pixel block and a pixel value included in the second pixel block, and perform an enhancement process on the denoised image by applying the obtained gain value to the second pixel block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Sang-hun KIM, Seung-ho PARK, Dong-yoon KIM, Young-su MOON
  • Publication number: 20190188539
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a storage configured to store a plurality of filters each corresponding to a plurality of image patterns; and a processor configured to classify an image block including a target pixel and a plurality of surrounding pixels into one of the plurality of image patterns based on a relationship between pixels within the image block and to obtain a final image block in which the target pixel is image-processed by applying at least one filter corresponding to the classified image pattern from among the plurality of filters to the image block, wherein the plurality of filters are obtained by learning, through an artificial intelligence algorithm, a relationship between a plurality of first sample image blocks and a plurality of second sample image blocks corresponding to the plurality of first sample image blocks based on each of the plurality of image patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Hyun-seung LEE, Dong-hyun KIM, Young-su MOON, Tae-gyoung AHN
  • Patent number: 10269099
    Abstract: An image-processing method of removing noise from an image includes: obtaining standard representative values for standard regions of a standard image and reference representative values for reference regions of a reference image, and obtaining a plurality of hierarchical images having different resolutions with respect to the standard image and the reference image based on the standard representative values and the reference representative values; obtaining the standard representative values for the standard regions of the standard image and the reference representative values for the reference regions of the reference image from the hierarchical images; determining a similarity between the standard regions and the reference regions from the standard representative values and the reference representative values; and removing noise by applying filtering to the standard image and the reference image depending on the determined similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-hun Lee, Young-su Moon, Yong-min Tai
  • Patent number: 10235779
    Abstract: An image display device may include a display and a controller configured to change a value of a pixel included in an input image based on a hue value and a saturation value of the pixel and control the display such that the display displays the image in which the value of the pixel has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-seok Min, Hyun-seung Lee, Young-su Moon
  • Publication number: 20190066274
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes an input interface, a first storage, a display, and a processor. Pixel values corresponding to a predetermined number of lines in an image input through the input interface are stored in the first storage. The processor acquires a first patch of a predetermined size by sampling a number of pixel values located in an outer region of a matrix centering about a specific pixel value from among the pixel values stored in the first storage, acquires a high-frequency component for the specific pixel value based on the acquired first patch, and processes the input image based on the high-frequency component. The display displays the processed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-jun LIM, Seok-bong YOO, Tae-gyoung AHN, Young-su MOON, Seong-hoon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20190057493
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display, and a processor configured to generate a second image and a third image where a dynamic range is expanded by respectively applying a first gain and a second gain to an input first image, generate a degraded image of the second image by applying a predetermined degradation model to the second image, based on a difference value between a pixel of the degraded second image and a pixel of the third image satisfying a predetermined condition, modify a pixel value of the second image based on the difference value, and output the second image where the pixel value is modified through the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gi-yeong GIM, Seung-hoon HAN, Young-su MOON, Tae-gyoung AHN, Woo-seok KANG
  • Publication number: 20190035357
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a storage configured to store output luminance information of a plurality of grayscale values according to brightness information; and a processor configured to: obtain a plurality of grayscale adjustment curves based on the output luminance information stored in the storage, obtain a plurality of calibration effects by applying each of the plurality of grayscale adjustment curves to an input image, obtain a grayscale adjustment curve corresponding to a maximum calibration effect from among the plurality of calibration effects, adjust a grayscale of each pixel of the input image based on the obtained grayscale adjustment curve to generate an output image, and output the output image through the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-moon LIM, Young-su MOON, Young-hoon JEONG, Chun ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10192473
    Abstract: A display apparatus for image processing and a method thereof are disclosed. The image processing method of a display apparatus includes receiving an image frame, identifying color where color cast is present by analyzing at least one of an illumination element and a tint element of the received image frame, and correcting color where the color cast is present by using color distribution of the received image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-seok Min, Chun Zhao, Young-su Moon, Ho-cheon Wey
  • Publication number: 20180366074
    Abstract: Disclosed is a local dimming liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doo-seop CHOI, Gi-yeong GIM, Young-su MOON, Young-hoon JEONG